A Reading by Margaret Atwood April 2, 2012

Doors open at 7:30 pm

This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP or tickets required.

A reception and book signing in Copley Formal Lounge will follow the reading.

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry, children's literature, fiction, and non-fiction. She is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000.

Atwood's most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth -- part of the Massey Lecture series -- appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Atwood's work has been translated into over 40 languages.